 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...played an English part,' Had been better far than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. " Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember...thousands fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish, Xot in glorious battle slain. " Nullus erat nostris qui tune obsisteret armis ; Res mihi bis denis... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - Great Britain - 1847 - 996 pages
...were once my sailors bold ; Lo ! each hangs his drooping forehead, While his dismal tale is told. " ' Sent in this foul clime to languish, Think what thousands...disease and anguish, Not in glorious battle slain. After this proud foe subduing, When your patriot friends you Bee, Think on vengeance for my ruin, And... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Caricatures and cartoons - 1848 - 494 pages
...play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart. " ' Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember...tombs below, Thro' the hoary foam ascending, Here I feed my constant woe: Here the bastimentos viewing, We recal our shameful doom, And our plaintive... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Caricature - 1848 - 488 pages
...play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart. " ' Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember...tombs below, Thro' the hoary foam ascending, Here I feed my constant woe : Here the bastimentos viewing, We recal our shameful doom, And our plaintive... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Caricature - 1848 - 488 pages
...better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart. " ' Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful anus we hail; But remember our sad story, And let Hosier's...tombs below, Thro' the hoary foam ascending, Here I feed my constant woe: Here the bastimentos viewing, We recal our shameful doom, And our plaintive... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...has played an English part,' Had been better far than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. Unrepining hee shall dwelt Each lonely scene shall thee restore,...till life can charm no more ; And mourned till pity's Through the hoary foam ascending, Here I feed my constant wo. Here the Bastimentos viewing, We recall... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...country crying He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Shenstone. "Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail; But remember...all my train attending From their oozy tombs below, Through the hoary foam ascending, Here I feed my constant woe : | Here the Bastimenjos viewing, We... | |
 | Norman Chevers - Public health - 1852 - 396 pages
...recalling the fate of Hosier and his seamen, at Carthagena, early in the last century : — " Sent in that foul clime to languish, Think what thousands fell...disease and anguish, Not in glorious battle slain." or, following another poet's description of the same tragic course of events : — " You, pitying see,... | |
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1854 - 296 pages
...has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart. Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember...fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish, Not iu glorious battle slain. Hence with all my train attending From their oozy tombs below,_ Through the... | |
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Had been better far than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. ' Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail; But remember our sad story, And let Hosier's wrongs prevail : Sent in this foul clime to languish, Think what thousands fell in vain,... 
